THANE POV
I should have stopped Keres before he said it.
Not because he was wrong.
Because he was right.
Because saying the words out loud made them real in a way silence never had.
And for a second, while Perse sat there with that coffee cup between her hands and the ridiculous muffin Keres had brought her sitting untouched inside its paper bag, I actually wanted to be again five years old.
Reach across the space between us and cover his mouth, like we were children again and not three grown idiots standing in front of the only girl who had ever had the power to ruin us without lifting a finger.
Silver wolves.
No one wanted to be bitten by a silver wolf.
We have discovered it the hard way.
We took our first job at thirteen. Didn't have our wolves yet but we'd been built up en
